"For the first time on record, the number of advertising-specific jobs in the U.S. is declining in the middle of an economic expansion, according to government data. The mysterious decline can be explained by two developments, most prominently technology’s invasion of the ad sector and the phenomenon of more corporations trying to emulate outside media companies in-house, which leaves less work for traditional ad firms."

Interesting article in The Atlantic from last week that most assuredly affects you. Read it.

When there’s a gun crime in America, there’s only one place to go to trace the gun back to its owner: Martinsburg, West Virginia. That’s where the ATF’s National Tracing Center handles roughly 8,000 active traces per day — all while inside a government-mandated technology time-capsule that makes searching a database of gun owners impossible. This is nothing like those cop shows you watch. With more gun stores in the U.S.A. than McDonald's, Starbucks and supermarkets combined, there’s a lot of paperwork to manually sort through. And it's truly a sight to behold.